Please help echoing a variable

[lingo5]

Hi,

I am trying to insert a variable in the body of an email lik so:

 

$message = "Dear Administrator,\n\nthe following distributor\n\n'.$row_admin_login_RS['distributor_company_name'].'\n\nHas modified his Distributor information record.\n\";

 

I know it must be a syntax error...but I can't figure it out.

Thanks

[ManiacDan]

If you open a string with double quotes, you must close it with double quotes:

 

$message = "Dear Administrator,\n\nthe following distributor\n\n" . $row_admin_login_RS['distributor_company_name'] . "\n\nHas modified his Distributor information record.\n";

The code you posted would (probably) throw a fatal PHP parse error.  Are you not showing errors?

 

[lingo5]

oh...I see...

I was getting a 500 error.

Thanks for your help, it works great.

[lingo5]

I have one more question about this,

can I insert html code in my email?, I have tried like this:

 

$strMessage = "<table width="450" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="4">
  <tr>
    <td><span class="NoResultsTXT2">Dear Administrator,</span></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td><span class="NoResultsTXT2">the following distributor</span></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td><span class="precioVenta">$row_admin_login_RS['distributor_company_name']</span></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td><span class="NoResultsTXT2">Has modified his Distributor information record. </span></td>
  </tr>
</table>";

But I get this error "Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_LNUMBER in /usr/home/eu45antifoul.com/web/distributors/DIST_distributors_update.php on line 216"

[litebearer]

pay close attention to your placement/use of double and single quotes. You are closing stings before you are intending

[peter_anderson]

You will need to replace the " (speech mark) for your HTML with a

\"

This will escape the marks, which will get rid of this error.

 

You'll need to do it to ALL speech marks in your email.

[lingo5]

Thanks Peter_anderson, but by doing that styles are not applied to te email.

I would like to be able to send a styled message using my own style sheet.

How can I do that?...

[Pikachu2000]

If I recall correctly, most email clients will need the CSS inline in order to use it, rather than in an external style sheet. Of course, you also need to make sure the mail is sent with appropriate headers for an HTML email.

 

But that aside, you can't use the same type of quotes inside a string as the quotes that enclose the string without escaping them with a backslash. There is no exception to that. Therefore, in a double quoted string, to insert a literal double quote, you need to use \". If you'd rather avoid the hassle and confusion of that, you can use HEREDOC syntax. Details on both can be found in the manual.

 

http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.types.string.php

[lingo5]

thanks Pikachu, I'm loking at that.